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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV EDITING SCHEDULES UDITING is a process preliminary to tabulation. It does not necessarily imply inaccuracies in the schedule returns, although inaccuracies, some of which can be corrected by the editor, will generally be discovered in the process of editing, and in some classes of schedules as, for example, in those making returns of financial statistics of corporations or municipalities, the correction of errors by editing may materially affect the results of the tabulation. Schedule editing is, nevertheless, even in the exceptional cases noted, primarily formal rather than corrective, since the schedule data are original, and are not subject to material revision where the several replies are consistent with one another, except by referring the schedule back to the enumerating agency, or by initiating a new enumeration. The general purposes of schedule editing are to insure, in as high a degree as possible, (I) accuracy, (2) consistency, (3) uniformity, and (4) completeness in the schedule returns. /. Accuracy Certain replies may raise a presumption of error, and in some cases this presumption may be sufficient to warrant investigation and verification. In certainforeign censuses, for example, when a person has been returned as over 100 years of age, an investigation has been made to determine whether the age has been correctly stated. The result has always been materially to reduce the number of reported centenarians. Schedules, or copies of schedules, collected by mail from manufacturing establishments or public service corporations or steam railways, after examination in the central office, are frequently returned to the reporting agencies for correction, or letters of inquiry covering certain points in the schedule are sent out calling for correct da...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458853035 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458853039 |
| Weight | 0.32 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.22 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 90 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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